Robert Blashek
Partner
Rob Blashek is a partner in O’Melveny’s Century City office and a member of the Tax Practice as well as the Investment Funds and Securitization Practice. His practice covers a broad range of federal and California income tax matters, with particular emphasis on private equity, corporate acquisitions, reorganizations and financings, bankruptcy and workouts, partnerships/joint ventures, and general business tax planning.
In recent years, Rob has handled the tax aspects of numerous acquisitions, strategic joint ventures, and financings for such clients as The Univision Companies, Oaktree Capital, Legendary Pictures, Western Digital, WebMD, Houlihan Lokey, San Francisco Giants, Power-One, and Lions Gate Entertainment.
Rob has also formed or assisted in the formation of numerous investment funds for clients such as Freeman Spogli & Co.; Shamrock Capital; Black Canyon; Clarity Partners; Northstar Capital; Key Principal Partners; Vance Street Capital; and Seidler Equity Partners, among others.
Professional Activities
Law Clerk, Honorable Robert J. Kelleher, US District Court for the Central District of California
Honors, Named "2010 Los Angeles Tax Lawyer of the Year" by
Best Lawyers in America; listed in
Chambers USA - America's Leading Business Lawyers (2003-2011);
Best Lawyers in America (2006-2011); listed in
The Leading 500: Real Estate, Labor and Employment and Tax (2007-2011); named a "Super Lawyer" in a survey conducted by Law & Politics Media Inc. and published in Los Angeles magazine (2004-2012); listed in
Legal 500 United States (2008-2011); recognized as a leader in private equity taxation in "World Tax"
International Tax Review's annual assessment of the world's leading tax firms (2008-2010); listed in PLC's,
Which Lawyer? Global 50 Firms 2011
Member, Taxation Sections of American Bar Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association
Author, “Tax Issues for Troubled Companies,”
2010 Major Tax Planning, Matthew Bender & Co. (2010); “Investments in ‘Pass-Through’ Portfolio Companies by Private Equity Partnerships: Tax Strategies and Structuring for Minimizing Adverse Tax Consequences to Tax-Exempt and Foreign Partners,”
2005 Major Tax Planning, Matthew Bender & Co. (2005); “Tax Planning For Financially Distressed Companies,”
1991 Major Tax Planning, Matthew Bender & Co. (1991)
Frequent Speaker, tax seminars and conferences sponsored by the U.S.C. Tax Institute, San Jose State University High Technology Tax Institute, Los Angeles County Bar Association and other organizations
Past Chairman, the Corporate Tax Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association